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THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Depth perception
Numbers all add up as Trevians win CSL South meet ■ by bill mclean
sports@northshoreweekend.com Guy’s gals dominated. Again. New Trier High School swim coach Mac Guy watched his girls easily capture another Central Suburban League South Meet championship at Niles West on Nov. 9. NT amassed 461.5 points. Runner-up Evanston tallied 349.5. “This is another year in which our greatest strength is our depth,” Guy said. NT went 1-2-3 in three events. That’s canyon-underneatha-canyon deep. Trevians senior Juliette Corboy topped the diving field with a 492.3-point day. New Trier’s Tally Ford (443.35) and Gloria Ho (426) finished 2-3. Some perspective: Last year’s state diving champion, Benet Academy’s Taylor Kramer, scored 414.25 points at the state meet. NT senior Kara Lucenti clocked a 2:06.19 to win the 200-yard IM. Right behind her was teammate Ingrid Wall (second, 2:06.22). Trevian Nicole Retondo placed third (2:11.14) in the event. NT also took the top three spots in the 500 free, led by Christine Ryan (5:06.34). Mia Haggerty silvered (5:11.12) ahead of Julia Green (5:13.73). Lucenti collected another gold in the 100 breaststroke
(1:05.72) and collaborated with Wall, Christian Katy and Liza Gallagher for a first-place 1:47.89 in the 200 medley relay. New Trier’s Samantha Adams hit the final wall first in the 100 butterfly (59.15), as did teammate Amelia Girgenti in the 100 free (53.53). Girgenti later anchored the winning 200 free relay (1:39.64, with Brittany Bishop, Gallagher and Retondo) and the victorious 400 free relay (3:34.1, with Wall, Haggerty and Bishop). Girgenti (24.7) and Bishop (24.98) went 2-3 in the 50 free; Bishop finished runner-up in the 100 free (53.79); NT received third-place swims from Christian (100 back, 1:00.86) and Hope Hayward (100 fly, 59.56). NT’s ‘B’ relay in the 200 free (Lucenti, Adams, Ryan and Caroline Good) finished runner-up (1:40.06). “Our girls have been working hard and are in excellent position to compete at sectionals and state in the next two weeks,” Guy said. The three-time reigning state champion Trevians (11-0 in dual meets) vie for state berths at the Glenbrook South Sectional on Nov. 16.
Loyola Academy Grace under pressure? Not quite. Loyola Academy junior Grace Tierney swam under a time — a meet-record time — at the Metro Catholic Athletic Conference Meet at Fenwick on Nov. 2. Tierney set a meet mark with her 5:02.22 in the 500 free
Flyin’ Ryan: New Trier High School’s Christine Ryan drives to a first-place finish in the 500 freestyle at the conference meet.
photography by joel lerner
and sped to a runner-up finish in the 200 free (1:53.35), as the Ramblers nearly upset the host Friars at the 14-team meet. Fenwick nipped LA 378-373.5 for the title. “The girls swam great and fought real hard,” Loyola coach Mike Hengelmann said. “We executed our races really well, and the rested girls [in their last meet] swam incredibly, with huge drops in time.” LA junior Libby Jardeleza touched first in the 100 back (56.9), and senior teammate Brooke Hortness edged Loyola freshman Elinor Arndt 288.15-288 for the diving championship. Jardeleza joined senior Marta Considine and sophomores Jamie Kolar and Claire Voss to post a runner-up time of 1:49.73 in the 200 medley relay. The Ramblers’ other top-three efforts: Jardeleza (second, 100 fly, 57.54); Kolar (second, 100 back, 58.61); Voss (second, 100 breast, 1:08.64); Claire Rushin (third, 50 free, 24.7); freshman Ella Tierney (third, 500 free, 5:12.42); 200 free relay (third, 1:38.89 — Maria Kyle, Rushin, Olivia Andrew, Grace Tierney); and 400 free relay (third, 3:37.39 — Kyle, Jardeleza, Andrew, Grace Tierney). LA freshman Alex Haitz was named MCAC frosh/soph swimmer of the year after winning the frosh/soph 50 free (24.75) and 100 free (59.67) events. Loyola’s frosh/soph squad (348 points) also finished runner-up to Fenwick (378). The Ramblers’ varsity also competes at this weekend’s Glenbrook South Sectional. ■